Generating preview/thumbnails for imported images from GN3
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Preview/thumbnails of editorial images, imported from GN3, are not automatically generated.
A workflow wf_CreatePreviewThumbnailImg.xml is used to create them manually.
Generate preview/thumbnails for imported images
Open the Command Prompt window.
Execute the command:
cmd4 wf CreatePreviewThumbnailImg -username xxxx -password yyyy
where xxxx is the name of a GN4 user who can logon to system with sufficient permissions to perform this operation and yyyy is the password.
Note: the above connects to the default connection: should you want to specify the connection or server name, see cmd4 examples.
or
srv4 wf CreatePreviewThumbnailImg
Note: execute the srv4 command on the IIS server, or on any other server that can connect directly to the GN4 database.
If the workflow does not exist in your database, import it first, with the following command: cmd4 config -in ..\GN4\Config\Global\GN4_Tark4_Common\wf_CreatePreviewThumbnailImg.xml -username xxxx -password yyyy |
The workflow does a search for all editorial images without thumbnail, and for each one: 1.It will load the "low" node, that in GN4 contains the original image. 2.It will parse it, so that thumbnail and preview are generated as result of the parse activity. 3.It will update the img with the values, if found. If the img is dummy, nothing will be created. |
Since the search returns all the img objects, cmd4 may go into timeout. In that case, re-launch it as needed, or use srv4. Note There will be always images without thumbnail - the dummy ones. |